The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-26
CITY MATTERS In GENERAL
In Brief

road at the West-street crossing was destroyed
oy ire last evening at o'clock. The loss was
perhaps 800. covered by insurance
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Christian f. w. Wsmpner and Louisa Nj. L.
Naner. Oliver McElraine and Mary Wilkison.
/ James o. Funk and Laura b. West Charles w.
| Gorsuch and Minnie NJ. Cox Alfred Kays and
| Fannie Steele, Wilson Potter and Sarah E.
| Sheplin.
Detective Thornton last evening arrested
| Frank Wilson, who has been hanging about
saloons and acting suspciousv for several days.
i When he was searched at the station house a
very richly mounted oDera-glass was found in
| his pocket, and the charge changed from
/ lettering to larceny.
! The articles of incorporation of the Odd-fel-
| lows Aid and Protective Association of America
were filed with the Secretary Of State yesterday
Mclean Moulder, Joseph f. Vaile, Of Kokomo,
and Samuel e. Tilford, of this city. The prn-
CHI al Office is ct Koko,no
REQUIs1TIoN FOR MAN AND WIFE.
The Governor yesterday issued a requistion
on the Governor of Illinois for the return of
Charles and Nora Edwards to this State for
trial. They were arrested at Tuscola. ILL.,, and
are wanted at Brazil on the charge of stealing q
horse and buggy.
GOT EACH OTHER INTO TROUBLE.
Last evening Charles Johnson. a farm laborer
from the neighhorhood Of Cumberland came to
the city. and on East Washington street fell in
with Katie Yoh. 6isreputable He
spent several hours with her, and after he had
started home discovered that $75 he had in a
inside vest pocket gone. He hunted up
the woman, and when she refused to refund the
money, knocked her down. Both were locked
in the station house, he for assault and battery
and she tor grand larceny.
SURVEYING THE NEW sTREET-cAR LINE
City Engineer Shearer yesterday began setting
the stakes for the survey of the new street-car
line from Woodruff Place to Haughville. The
contract for the construction of the line will be
let as soon the survey is completed, which
will De some time next week. The survey will
only extend from Woodruff Place TO the city
limits. on the west side, but the company will
build the line through to Haughville at the same
time if the roadway between Fall creek and
White river ia widened. 1t is the expectation
OF the company to be at work the line In
few weeks.
HIS CLAIM WASN'T PAID.
The Auditor of State yesterday received let
ter from Kansas inquiring as to the stability of
the Globe Mutual Assessment Life Association.
1t informed him that FL. f. Sois. of Stafford,
Kan, had policy in il his fathers life. and
that il was recently sent here for payment
With 1t was the proof of the elder Soiss death,
but the package was returned unopened. The
Globe Mutual Assessment Life Association. of
which Marcus e. Frazier was secretary. has
made no report to the Auditor since 1884 Dur
ing the year preceding it collected SIC. l33 and
paid out for losses and claims S1.9l0
TRASH ABOUT THE MARKET-HoUsE.
"Look there" said an East market loiterer,
pointing to the space between the City Hall and
market-hou The market hours had long been
over. but there was spread of decayed peaches,
banana skins watermelon rinds and other trash.
chiefly abandoned vegetables, left to rot IN the
sun. On the pavement the south side OF
these two buildings there also some refuse
of the same kind, not so great a quantity, but
the dirt in many places was tightly packed upon
the walk, and it looked as IL it had been unds-
turbee for weeks. Perhaps the city government
has neg elected to buy brooms for the sweepers
THEY RECEIVED NO SUGGESTIONS.
The American Architect of recent date had in
it Communication in reference to the expert
advisers selected by the Soldiers Monument
commissioners. The writer said that he sug-
gested the name OF Professor Ware to the com
missioners. This the commissioners deny. No
suggestions in this regard were received from
any architects until the expert advisers had
been practically selected. Before the
were given to the public a letter or two came to
the board mentioning that of Professor Ware,
but he had been chosen two weeks before. The
com missioners having prepared mono
graph of Indiana history. which is to be sent to
the architects who Will compete for the ap-
prevail of their designs
THEORIES ABOUT THE COMET.
Many persons who failed to see the comet OBJ
served by the Journals astronomical reporter
were bus;ly engaged yesterday in circulating
theories to the effect that the phenomenon was
really not comet, but was reflection in the
sky of the gas wells north of the city. The
PLANTATION offered by the theorists, however, will
hardly account for the same phenome
non at Louisville. where. according to
the Courier Journal of yesterday, it was seen
at the same hour that it was noticed here and
10 described almost exactly az it was by the
Journals astronomer. The Courier-Journal
eight feet in length" It visible in Louisville
until after o'clock. 1t could not be seen in
Indianapolis last night, owing to clouds in the
skies
THE HOME. RULE FAIR
At the meeting of the executive committee of
the Irish National League yesterday it was de-
cdsd that the fair to be given for the benefit of
the evicted tenantry in Ireland should open on
Oct. II and continue until the 22d. It will be
called the "Home-rule Fair and it is the inten
ton to have grand ball on the night of the
2lst of October 1t was decided by the commit
tee that the general admission to the fair shall
be % cents, season tickets, 81 ball tickets. ST..
Twelve ladies have been designated to consti-
tute a general executive committee, and they
will elect their own officers. including treas
urer who will have charge of the receipts of the
fair and forward them to DR. O'Reilly at Detroit
treasurer of the Irish National League who will
transmits the money to Ireland There will be a
general meeting of ladies next Sunday. at $3.50
o'clock p. NJ, at Masonic Hall, to elect officers.
TRIED TO DROWN HIMSELF.
Wednesday night, after the streets were
deserted, James Lemen, a cigar maker, residing
on North West street. left home with the threat
that he intended to take his life. He evaded
some OF his relatives who attempted to follow
him and went to point on the canal near
Military Park, where he partially undressed and
plunged into the water. David K Louthan, The
weighmaster at Elevator b. who happened to be |
passing, noticed Lemons strange conduct and |
stopped to see what he going to do. After |
he had gone down the second time, and it was |
apparent that he was attempting to drown him |
self Mr. Louthan ran forward and plunged in to |
III water after him. After a struggle he suc- |